The global context of nursing: a human becoming perspective.

When one considers global health issues from the natural science worldview, it is with a belief that no one person can have any significant influence, hence, a sense of powerlessness and disconnection. In this column, though, the authors assert that when one's perspective is the human science paradigm, and particularly, the human becoming theory, one person can and does make a difference in global health. The authors discuss the human becoming perspective using the metaparadigm concepts of human, health, and environment, and also, nursing practice guided by the theory. Informed by this perspective, they then explore political implications for global nursing and health.